‘The MF industry has to carry out confidence-building measures’

Waqar Naqvi, CEO of Taurus Mutual Fund, speaks to Sai Prasan of The Financial Express on issues ranging from the current US financial tsunami, its impact on the domestic market and economy to the lessons that Indian players can learn from the US crisis.

Living with volatility

Rapid upheavals in the global markets have taken volatility to higher levels and this a global phenomenon. With most of the mystery regarding write-offs and bailouts yet to be solved, the scenario is likely to persist. Indian investors need to get used to such turbulence, say Jigar Pathak and Akash Joshi

Dell to boost tech-related giving in emerging markets

With its stock price falling to levels not seen in more than a decade, it may seem an odd time for Dell Inc to start talking about giving away money.

Now, Google places its software in wireless smartphones

Google isn’t just for Web browsing any more. The giant Internet search service joined with cellular carrier T-Mobile USA to unveil the first cellphone based on Google software. It’s an aggressive bid to pry open the market for advanced wireless smartphones.

India inside Intel chips

Three hundred odd people at Intel India have just won a bet with their management and earned themselves a ‘fascinating vacation’. But they are clearly more excited about what they have delivered—end-to-end design of Intel’s first six-core or six brain microprocessor.

Fuel of the future: hydrogen

Hydrogen—nature’s bounty, which is available in abundance—has the potential to help resolve the global energy crisis. India has already joined the global quest to find ways to harness this valuable resource for large-scale commercial application.

US west coast’s waterfront in for a technological revolution

The year 2008 could herald the greatest technological revolution on the US West Coast’s working waterfront since containerisation.

Docking with a new mindset for ports

The need for significant enhancement of our port capacity through the creation of additional capacity as well as improving existing capacity and efficiency is not only well recognised, but also under active implementation through various government programmes.

The electric car race revs up

Long before green cars became trendy in other parts of the world, a boxy electric two-seater began rolling out of a small factory in Bangalore, which was then emerging as a software services hub.

Testing times for the polluter-pays principle

Ten states from Maryland to Maine are about to undertake the nation’s most serious effort yet to tackle climate change, putting limits on carbon dioxide emissions from utilities and making them pay for each tonne of pollutants.

Climate risk moves up on CEO’s agenda

Though most companies have yet to institutionalise the functioning of climate change risk managers, yet many companies have CEOs performing this role, according to the trends emerging from the ongoing FE-EVI Green Business Survey.

Make them pay for the meltdown

As it stands, the rest of us will be paying much money over a long time for the greed and bad judgment of those who melted down the economy. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are propping up firms that a relative few money lenders and Wall Street wizards ruined.

The changing face of Indian banking

A lot of newsprint has gone into the sub-prime debacle leading to the collapse of one bank after the other, with the bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the US with its cascading effect on the rest of the globe.

Capital discomfort

The one-year-old subprime crisis heightened last week, further damaging and destroying some of the top global investment banks, financial institutions and insurance companies, threatening to further affect global economic growth.

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